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METZ: II

"I look at it like this," METZ frontman Alex Edkins says. "Youstart a band, just as something to do, because music's whatmakes you tick, the thing you dream about and think about andthat's it. You never think that you'll be able to do it all the time.But then, for some inexplicable reason, people actually listenand latch on and the band begins to take on new meaning. Allof a sudden there are expectations and pressure, real orimagined, to change who you are. It was important to us, whenmaking this record, not to give in to that pressure."

What happens when a seemingly irresistible force meets animmovable object is a serviceable metaphor for the musicMETZ creates, both live and on record. Now behold II, theconcussive new full-length from what is arguably NorthAmerica's finest touring rock band. Written and recorded in2014, after two years of constant touring behind their rightlyadored self-titled debut, II is METZ at their most true toform-as pure an expression of what they do as can currentlybe committed to tape. The guitars are titanic, the drumsill-tempered, the vocals chilling, and the volume worrisome.

From the exhilarating grind of "Spit You Out" to the blunt-forcethrills of "Landfill," herein reside 10 songs as uncompromisingin their ferocity and abrasiveness as any collection this recordlabel has had the pleasure of releasing to date. While theband's debut was often "clean and clinical," II is what Edkinsdescribes as a "much heavier, darker, and sloppier" affair, withmany of its roughest edges and ugliest tones kept intact. Itslyrical matter, Edkins notes, stems from a year of loss anddoubt, of contemplating our relationships with death and theplanet. "I consider myself a pretty massive pessimist, but apessimist who knows how lucky he is," he says. "A lot of thingsin everyday life drive me crazy: how we relate to each other;how politics, media, technology, money and medicationinfluence our lives. This band, in a lot of ways, is an outlet."

What we're left with is the sound of an already monstrous bandimproving in both subtle and terrifying ways.

Strange Peace (Pre-Order)

Since releasing their self-titled debut record in 2012, which The NewYorker called, "One of the year's best albums a punishing, noisy,exhilarating thing," the Toronto-based 3-piece METZ have garneredinternational acclaim as one of the most electrifying and forceful live acts,touring widely and extensively, playing hundreds of shows each year aroundthe world.

The best punk isn't an assault as much as it's a challenge - to what'snormal, to what's comfortable, or simply to what's expected. Teetering onthe edge of perpetual implosion," NPR wrote in their glowing review ofMETZ's 2015 second album, II.

Strange Peace was recorded in Chicago, live off the floor to tape with SteveAlbini. The result is a distinct artistic maturation into new and alarmingterritory, frantically pushing past where the band has gone before, whilecapturing the notorious intensity of their live show. The trio continued toassemble the album (including home recordings, additionalinstrumentation) in their hometown, adding the finishing touches withlongtime collaborator, engineer and mixer, Graham Walsh.

Strange Peace isn't merely a collection of eleven uninhibited and urgentsongs. It's also a kind of sonic venting, a truculent social commentary thatbludgeons and provokes, excites and unsettles. With all the pleasurabletension and anxiety of a fever dream, Strange Peace is equal partschallenging and accessible. It is this implausible balancing act, movingfrom one end of the musical spectrum to the other, that only a band ofMETZ's power and capacity can maintain: discordant and melodic,powerful and controlled, meticulous and instinctive, subtle and complex,precise and reckless, wholehearted and merciless, brutal and optimistic,terrifying and fun.

"Their whiplash of distortion is made with precision, a contained chaos.But you would never talk about them like that. Because METZ are notsomething you study or analyze," wrote Liisa Ladouceur in Exclaim! "Theyare something you feel: a transfer of energy, pure and simple." In otherwords: to feel something, fiercely and intensely, but together, not alone.

Replicant

With a battery of custom built software instruments, samples, and 7 live lopers, Christopher Tignor and master percussionist Theo Metz saturate our senses with new colors reflecting the urgent vitality of their South Bronx neighborhood. At times the two seem to lock talons like eagles in a death spiral, as Metz's brutal percussive athleticism keeps pace with Tignor's machines in an aural game of chicken.

Cheatahs

After a March/April national US tour supporting Wavves and Fidlar, and in between a smattering of UK/European summer shows that included a performance at the Primavera Festival and touring with Metz -- London based, Cheatahs headed home to finish their self titled debut album. Featuring the anthemic, "The Swan" (an altered take from the EP version), "Cut the Grass", which premiered on the AV Club in august (" crunchy textures with dreamy melodies and wispy vocal harmonies") and "Fall", a track that premiered on pitchfork in march and was quickly declared a " catchy-as-f*ck soaring-guitar anthem" by Stereogum. The booming track, Get Tight will premiere early January 2014.

Mourning Trance

Mourning Trance is a record about loss and family, but also about coping and finding a way to enjoy life through all of the exhaustion. It's an album about waking up every morning, working eight hours, and still finding a way to celebrate surviving another day.

In Still Life Still's case, that way was the only one the band knows - writing and playing music with best friends.

The album was recorded and produced in Toronto by Alex Bonenfant (Crystal Castles, Metz) the result of that process is a weird, beautiful pop record, inspired by, and in honour of the brilliance and absurdity of real life. Those bittersweet experiences continue to be what drives the band and record.

Hunters

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Hunters are excited to announce their signing to Mom + Pop for their debut LP. Since releasing their 2011 EP Hands On Fire, Hunters have been hard at work touring and playing live shows with METZ, Cloud Nothings, A Place To Bury Strangers and The Kills. They've also had breakout performances at last year's CMJ with shows at Brooklyn Vegan's showcase and the FADER FORT. Hunters have also been featured on the cover of the Village Voice along with acclaim from The New York Times, New Yorker, FADER, SPIN, Filter among many others. With a fury of fuzzed out guitars and bodies being strewn across the stage, Derek Watson and Izzy assault the masses with a wave of barely contained chaos.

Light Information (Pre-Order)

Nobody cared about their old heads, because the new ones work just fine now, don't they?.... they have the same size mouth and eyes.

The song Old Heads is a sci-fi space anthem to technology that constantly replaces itself, proving both necessary and unnecessary at the same time. It's also a jangly pop gem, a trip through the fantastical that is ultimately warm and relatable. This remarkable coexistence is one of many achievements of Chad VanGaalen's Light Information, his sixth record on Sub Pop.

For an album that's about not feeling comfortable with really anything, as VanGaalen says, Light Information is nonetheless a vivid, welcoming journey through future worlds and relentless memories. The rich soundscapes and sometimes jarring imagery could only come from the mind of a creative polymath--an accomplished visual artist, animator, director, and producer,VanGaalen has scored television shows, designed puppet characters for Adult Swim, directed videos for Shabazz Palaces, Strand of Oaks,METZ, Dan Deacon, and The Head and the Heart, and produced records for Women, Alvvays, and others.

While alienation has always been a theme of VanGaalen's music,Light Information draws on a new kind of wisdom--and anxiety--gained as he watches his kids growing up. Being a parent has given me a sort of alternate perspective, worrying about exposure to a new type of consciousness that's happening through the internet, he says. Throughout the dark-wave reverb of Light Information are stories of paranoia, disembodiment, and isolation--but there's also playfulness, empathy, and intimacy.

The product of six years' work, going back even before 2014's Shrink Dust, Light Information emerged from the experimental instruments that fill VanGaalen's Calgary garage studio. As always, VanGaalen wrote, played, and produced all of the music on Light Information(save Ryan Bourne's bass part on Mystery Elementals and vocals onStatic Shape from his young daughters Ezzy and Pip), and designed the cover art.

Congrats

A cyborg dance party for a broken future that's closerthan you think - Pitchfork

Off Your Face Euphoria - The Line of Best Fit

hypnotic, electronic climax-rock - SPIN

scuzzy, funk-fuelled energy - FACT Mag

Holy Fuck took the world by surprise around 2005 because there wasjust nothing like them-a hardcore thrift-store found-object punkband with a relentless commitment to rhythm and a sense foratmosphere better matched to a close encounter of the third kindthan a simple rock concert. Think EinstÜrzende Neubauten re-inspiredby Fela Kuti with Brian Eno working as keyboard tech and everychannel on the mixer set to max power. It was the best ride out therewhile it lasted, up to and including their 2010 full-length Latin,recorded largely in too-brief breaks while on the road. That albumcemented Holy Fuck's sound and reputation for unapologeticinstrumental noise but at the end of yet another insane touring cycle,it was time to take a break which turned into a hiatus which turnedinto a chance to explore other projects and production work. (Like thebands Lids, Dusted and Etiquette, or production for Metz, Alvvays andViet Cong.)

They'd been moving faster than they'd ever expected, especially aftera 2007 sophomore release that came close to securing Canada'sprestigious Juno and Polaris Music Prize. (Not to mention festival slotsat All Tomorrow's Parties, Glastonbury, Coachella and more-plus LouReed said they were the best band he'd seen at SXSW.) The strategywas just to stay busy, says founder and noisemaster Brian Borcherdt,but soon they started to feel like Indiana Jones running from thatboulder: "He had to step aside and let things settle!"

But there's nothing Indiana Jones does better than the shock reveal, isthere? And so in 2016 Holy Fuck suddenly announced the release ofCongrats, a surprise full-length two years in the making that is by anyscientific measure their holiest fuckiest release ever: "When you'resitting still in a van and staring out the windows, you start to dreamabout all the other things you want to do," says Borcherdt. "This albumis exactly what we couldn't do then."

Checking into a "proper" studio, rather than the barn in rural Ontariowhere most of Holy Fuck's records were made, Congrats wasrecorded by the same lineup that recorded Latin: Borcherdt, GrahamWalsh, Matt "Punchy" McQuaid, and Matt Schulz. As they worked, theydiscovered that Congrats was a process of refining things, Walshsays-both physically and philosophically. Their ad hoc arsenal oflow-budget hi-tech toys has been streamlined down to what he callsthe nervous system of the band: "What gets run through our system isthe seed of the idea for our music, and the system is what we play. Thisrecord is almost a beginning-the first stage of a new way for us."

So consider those previous albums prelude to Holy Fuck's truebreakthrough, and recognize Congrats as the moment when HolyFuck take the chaos and craziness (and charm) that have always beenat the heart of their band and not so much control it as concentrate it.Now they're heavier, wilder, leaner, sharper, more daring and moreunpredictable than ever before, on fire with the power of inspiredoutsiders like Suicide, Silver Apples, Can, Mission of Burma or theMonks or even Sun Ra, says Borcherdt, whose pursuit of his own kindof musical purity is exactly what Holy Fuck are after. Yes, it took thema few years, which in 2016 is supposed to be the career suicide, butthey took that time to take chances. "We were told we did everythingwrong," Borcherdt says now, laughing-but really Congrats is thesound of a band doing absolutely everything right.

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